Simon Stone aft. Euripides: Medea

THEATER
TUESDAY – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18 – 22, 2020 (continuing through MARCH 8)
7:30 PM

BAM Strong Harvey Theater
651 Fulton Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn

$45-$195
https://www.bam.org/medea

Simon Stone made a big impression here with Yerma at the Armory last year.  Having hit it with Lorca, now he goes back to one of the most intense Greek tragedies, Euripides's Medea.  I guess Stone is attracted to depictions of fraught mother/children relationships — although in this case, unlike in Yerma, for most of the play the children actually exist.  If you're the kind of person who needs stars to motivate him or herself to go to the theater, this one has Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale (partners with children IRL — but we're not gonna think about that).

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  I'm sure Jason and Medea liked to sit down for beers and sausage before things went south:  Black Forest Brooklyn.